BART service reopened between San Francisco, East Bay after truck crash

By Rick Hurd

Contra Costa Times

Posted:
05/20/2014 12:41:35 PM PDT

Updated:
05/20/2014 01:31:31 PM PDT

OAKLAND -- A truck crash that brought down two power lines near the Port of Oakland on Tuesday morning forced BART service to shut down briefly between Oakland and San Francisco, and caused 202 PG&E customers to lose power, officials said.

BART issued an advisory around 12:17 p.m. that it was shutting down service between the West Oakland and Powell Street stations for 30 minutes to allow PG&E crews to fix a dangling wire hanging over the West Oakland station tracks that resulted from the crash, officials said.

Those repairs took about five minutes, and the tracks were soon reopened, BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said.

Residual delays of 10-15 minutes were expected to be felt for a short time, Trost said.

PG&E needed to repair the wires because a truck smashed into a pole around 9:38 a.m. at Seventh and Maritime streets, company spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said. The truck hit only one pole, but the force of the crash brought down another and left wires dangling, she said.

The crash interrupted power to 202 customers, but PG&E had restored power to all but 11 by 1 p.m., Sarkissian said. The customers affected were along Third and Seventh streets between Brush Street and the San Francisco Bay, she said.